Motus Dei

Motus Dei
Author: Warrick Farah
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2021-10-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1645083500

Discover Your Place in the Movement of God An incredible breakthrough in missions history is taking place as disciples of Jesus make more disciples of Jesus around the globe, particularly among the least-reached. But what exactly are these church planting or disciple making movements? Where are they occurring and what are their unifying features? How are they manifesting in diverse populations? And can you or your organization be instrumental in catalyzing more movements? Motus Dei, Latin for “movement of God,” seeks to answer these questions and more. Warrick Farah has expertly synthesized an extensive conversation between mission practitioners, scholars, and seasoned movement leaders from around the world. The resulting in-depth analysis of movements provides a multi-disciplinary, academic investigation of an emerging “movements missiology,” highlighting the importance of theology, social sciences, ethnology and anthropology, communications theory, leadership theory, and statistical analysis. Motus Dei locates the current Church Planting Movement (CPM) phenomenon within modern history, while tracing its roots back to the first century, and articulates a missiological description of the dynamics of Disciple Making Movements (DMMs) in Asia, Africa, and diaspora contexts in the Global North. Offering over thirty firsthand accounts of indigenous churches planting churches among the nations, Motus Dei provides a seedbed for growing movements in diverse contexts. There are lessons to be learned here by anyone seeking to participate in the movement of God.

Beyond Charity

Beyond Charity
Author: John M. Perkins
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1993-07-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1585582115

A powerful call to action to bring reconciliation and restoration to broken communities.

Church Planting Movements

Church Planting Movements
Author: V. David Garrison
Publisher: WIGTake Resources
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2007
Genre: Christianity and other religions
ISBN: 9780974756202

David Garrison, PhD University of Chicago, defines Church Planting Movements as rapidly multiplying indigenous churches planting churches that sweep across a people group or population segment. Garrison's Church Planting Movements: How God Is Redeeming a Lost World signaled a breakthrough in missionary church planting. After the publication of Garrison's book in 2004 it became impossible to talk about missions without referencing Church Planting Movements. Church Planting Movements examines more than two-dozen movements of multiplying churches on five continents. After presenting these case studies, Garrison identifies ten universal elements present in each movement. He then broadens the circle of examination to identify a further ten common characteristics, factors identified in most, but not all, of the movements. He concludes his examination with a list of "Seven Deadly Sins," i.e. harmful practices that stifle or impede Church Planting Movements. Important for evangelical readers, the author returns to his findings to see how they stand up to the light of Scripture. What he discovers is that Church Planting Movements are much more consistent with the New Testament lay-led house-church movements that swept rapidly through the Mediterranean world in the face of hostile opposition than today's more sedentary professional institutionalized Christianity. Learn more about Church Planting Movements from the book's website: www.ChurchPlantingMovements.com.

The Present and Future of Evangelical Mission

The Present and Future of Evangelical Mission
Author: Narry F. Santos
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2022-07-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666730963

Crisis is an invitation to both prophetic evaluation and new imagination. In this volume, Canadian missiologists and practitioners consider the past and how the past might enable the church to move forward in Christian mission—in the academy, agency, assembly, and the agora. How can the Canadian church welcome different voices from the periphery? What must be done to empower the next generation? How can we respond in light of the injustices done to our Indigenous brothers and sisters? Where does reconciliation fit into the picture? How might we navigate between secularization and fundamentalisms? How ought we move together in mission and in unity across denominational difference? How can we equip laypeople to live their callings faithfully in the agora? How can work in the marketplace be ministry? And lastly, how is the Spirit at work in our contexts in this day and age? These questions (among others) onboard us into the ongoing conversation about the state of evangelical mission in Canada, and each of these essays adeptly lead us into the beginnings of answers to these questions. These essays address how the past informs our future, and how we might answer the prophetic call with both hope and renewed vigor to participate in the mission of God.

Iustitia Dei

Iustitia Dei
Author: Alister E. McGrath
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2020-02-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1108472567

A substantially rewritten edition of a work that has already established itself as the leading authority in its field.

Transformational Church

Transformational Church
Author: Ed Stetzer
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2010
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433669307

It is time to take heart and rework the scorecard. --

Reviving Mission

Reviving Mission
Author: Linson Daniel
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2024-12-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1514009633

God is leading us into a new season of renewal and revival. Apostolic mission leaders Linson Daniel, Jon Hietbrink, and Eric Rafferty invite us into everyday mission in the way of Jesus with this integrative model that brings together spirituality, calling, and formation to equip the whole community to encounter God's movement in fresh ways.

The Historians of the Church of York and Its Archbishops

The Historians of the Church of York and Its Archbishops
Author: James Raine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 659
Release: 2012-11-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1108051553

This three-volume collection of documents, relating to York between the seventh and sixteenth centuries, was published between 1879 and 1894.

Principles of Natural Theology

Principles of Natural Theology
Author: George H. Joyce
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2023-04-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3868385711

Natural Theology is that branch of philosophy which investigates what human reason unaided by revelation can tell us concerning God. The end at which it aims is to demonstrate the existence of God, to establish the principal divine attributes, to vindicate God’s relation to the world as that of the Creator to the creature, and, finally, to throw what light it can on the action of divine providence in regard of man and on the problem of evil.